Dr Catherine Weetman
Key themes – Main Group Chemistry, Homogeneous Catalysis, Rare Earth Elements, Sustainability, Synthetic Chemistry, Structure and Bonding Relationships, Small Molecule Activation, Density Functional Theory.
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2020 to Present
University of Strathclyde, Scotland
Chancellor's Fellow and Lecturer
Catalysis & Synthesis, Department of Pure and Applied Chemistry.
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2018-2020
TU Munich, Germany
EPFL, Switzerland
EuroTech Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellowship
Aluminium Multiple Bonds with Prof. Shigeyoshi Inoue (TUM) and a 6 month secondment with Prof. Marinella Mazzanti (EPFL)
2017-2018
TU Munich, Germany
TU Munich Foundation Fellow (TUFF)
Lewis base stabilised Aluminium Complexes for Small Molecule Activation and Catalysis with Prof. Shigeyoshi Inoue.
2015-2017
University of Edinburgh, Scotland
Postdoctoral Research Associate
d- and f-block organometallics with Prof. Polly Arnold and Prof. Jason Love.
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2011-2015
University of Bath, England
PhD
Magnesium Hydride Reductions with Prof. Michael Hill.
2007-2011
University of Bath, England
MChem Chemistry with Year in Industry
Final year research project ‘Group 2 mediated formation of dihydropyridides and their subsequent reactions’ with Prof. Michael Hill
Industrial training undertaken at Sasol Technology UK ‘Catalyst design for selective ethylene tetramerisation’
Funding and Awards
EPRSC New Investigator
2024-2027
Developing a Future Green Economy through Aluminium Bimetallics
RSC Enablement Grant
04/2023 to 03/2024
Developing Facile Reductive Elimination at Main Group Centres for Sustainable Catalysis
ScotCHEM Emerging Researcher
05/2022 to 07/2022
To host PhD Student from CvO University Oldenburg – Project ‘Synthesis and Catalytic Application of Three-Membered Ring Systems containing a Group 14 Element and an Aluminium-Aluminium Double Bond’
Lower Saxony-Scotland Tandem Fellowship
12/2021 to 11/2022
To set up a new collaboration with Dr Lena Albers, CvO University Oldenburg – Project ‘Synthesis of new Heteroalkenes containing Group 14 and Group 2 elements and their application as catalysts
Best Oral Presentation - RSC Main Group Interest Group Meeting
09/2019
‘Aluminium Multiple Bonds’
EuroTech Marie Skłodowska-Curie (MSCA)
12/2018 to 06/2020
​To conduct research at TU Munich and a 6-month secondment in EPFL – Project ‘Aluminium Multiple Bonds’